As you can see from the picture above, we set up mission control recently to see just how rusty we are. The good news is that we were sounding good and had quite a lot of fun. The bad news is that as two of the band now live in the South of England, getting together for practices and shows is a lot more difficult than it used to be. For that reason, we’ve sadly had to pull out of the n_ilk festival at the Botanic Garden in Dundee. Chris, Cat and our friend Paul are all involved in organising n_ilk and I’m sure would love to see as many people there as possible. It’s going to be a great day, I missed it last year due to work commitments so will be making sure to attend this year!

It was a couple of weeks ago now, but our friends at Glasgow Podcart played “Polar White” on podcart #74 and said nice things. Give it a listen, if you’ve not already!

The artwork for the album is coming along nicely, and there should hopefully be firm details of the release and a launch event in the coming weeks.

“A bit Mum, a little bit Liz Fraser, a smidgen Psapp. They’re from Dundee and say other tracks on their soon come album are more guitar based and take influence from Stereolab and Life Without Buildings. Curious.”

I have found the remaining t-shirts we had made quite a while ago, so have set up a shop where you can buy them for £5 plus p+p. We have limited stock of the following sizes:

7 x Mens Small
4 x Mens Medium
1 x Ladies Medium / One Size

The t-shirt features a simple logo (by Alex Botten), taken from the legendary and at the time much sought after badges, hand screenprinted on a brown American Apparel shirt. The print on my own t-shirt has held up very well to repeated washes.

“Polar White” will be making its national radio debut tomorrow (Sat 10th July) on Amazing Radio. Charlie Ashcroft will be playing it on the Audition show from 5pm, and again on Tuesday and Thursday. Amazing Radio is available on DAB and online here.

Peenko has featured us as one of this week’s Friday Freebies, alongside our pals Pensioner and Q Without U, which was nice. I’ll also be doing a wee Q+A for them around the release of the album, so keep an eye out for that.

On the subject of the Kays, it was good to see Russell from the band get 3/5 from Uncut this month for the debut Mammoeth album, “Nascent”. If you like the Shins or Alfie you should check it out. You can see the rather cheeky animated video for “LapDog” here.